(n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
(n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
(n.) The chief officer of a commandery.
(n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
Prefect
Definition:
(n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.
(n.) A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.
(n.) In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Luxigon “The mayor is convinced that we will see the same result in terms of less traffic and lower pollution as we did with the left bank highway closure, in which case there will be no reason for the police prefect to object to it.” Paris is banning traffic from half the city.
(2) "There were kids in the sixth form, prefects, who we knew were Combat 18 , and we were like, 'What the fuck?'
(3) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
(4) There are weak points that are not acceptable,” Philippe Galli, prefect for the Seine-Saint-Denis region that is in part responsible for security at the stadium, told Le Parisien newspaper .
(5) France’s interior minister, Victor de Persigny, believed Haussmann to be the ideal candidate for the job of Prefect of the Seine and overseer of Napoléon III’s plan to transform the city.
(6) Steve Barbet, the police spokesman for the local prefect in Calais, said: “We do not use teargas without a good reason and use of teargas has to be authorised and it is only authorised when it is necessary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London calling?
(7) The Guardian is shown around CCA by a prefect, Ben, discussing the byelection and Ukip; Ben declares himself a communist and says he wants to be a history professor.
(8) When you explain to parents their child gets less, they go through the process of shock, disbelief and then they get angry.” Daisy Airstone, a 16-year-old prefect in year 11, was similarly shocked.
(9) The prefect's office said any large "festive gathering" is also outlawed.
(10) She insists she only ever led female cadres her own age, and that it had been her job, as a school prefect, to teach other students how to hide under their desks during air-raids.
(11) Each of them was interned by order of civil prefect in the maximum security ward of the C.H.S.
(12) Instead Paris’s prefect of police – the state representative – this week approved the closure of the riverside route for a six-month trial.
(13) His father was a mantle manufacturer with high academic hopes for his children, and Robert went to William Hulme grammar school, where he was head prefect and captain of the rugby team.
(14) The new Conservative chief whip, Andrew Mitchell – dubbed "Thrasher" for being a tough prefect at his public school and a noted strong-armer of MPs in the Commons – seems alarmingly well-qualified on the first count.
(15) Among the prefects of political and economic commentary, the standard thing to do this morning is to rehearse Trump’s fury at free trade, to look at the voters that most of them have never bothered talking to – and to squawk that America has struck out in a new and radically different direction.
(16) Over the course of 17 years I disturbed their daily routines by turning Paris upside down; and they had to look at the same face of the prefect in the Hôtel de Ville.
(17) Announcing the six-month trial closure, Paris’s police prefect, Michel Cadot, said he would be watching closely its impact on traffic and pollution, and warned the highway would be reopened if it caused “a major traffic problem”.
(18) The office of the prefect of Naples did not respond to requests for comment, including requests for information that is supposed to be public about how much the firm has been paid by the Italian government.
(19) 8.40pm BST Paul and Mary watch Glenn make his "new pastry" like a couple of smoking prefects at the corner of the netball court, watching a first year pick up their used fag butts.
(20) The head prefects in our politics and media see disorder and immediately cry insurrection This isn’t the mainstream view.